Mr Martin Hirsch

Consultant Gynaecologist & Endometriosis Specialist

MRCOG, MD(Res), PGDip (Res Dev), BM
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Martin Hirsch

Overview

Medico-Legal experience

Mr Hirsch is registered with the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL), the National Crime Agency (NCA), and the UK Register of Expert Witnesses. He is happy to be instructed by both Claimant and Defendant law firms in personal injury and clinical negligence actions. Mr Hirsch can usually turnaround reports within 6-8 weeks, sooner if required.

Clinical Practice & Experience

Mr Hirsch has been a Consultant Gynaecologist and Endometriosis Specialist at the Oxford University Hospitals since 2020. In 2007, he graduated from the University of Southampton with a Bachelor of Medicine. Following this, he worked at the Southampton General Hospital until 2009, when he became a Senior House Officer in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Bay of Plenty Hospital in New Zealand until 2011. Mr Hirsch has had a very extensive career within Gynaecology and Obstetrics practising at several hospitals including: The St Bartholomew’s Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital, the North Middlesex University Hospital, and the University College London Hospitals. He is currently an Honorary Clinical Fellow at the University of Oxford Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and a senior council member of the British Society for Gynaecological Endoscopy (BSGE).

Clinical Interests

Mr Hirsch is an advanced endoscopic gynaecological surgeon specialising in surgery for women with endometriosis, fibroids, ovarian cysts, and menstrual disorders. He is passionate about improving endometriosis care and offers holistic, medical, and surgical treatments for people with endometriosis associated pain. This includes surgery for severe endometriosis within a multidisciplinary team.

Research Interests

Mr Hirsch works closely within research teams at the University of Oxford, the University College London, and the UK Cochrane Centre. His specialist research interest is endometriosis and within a research setting he works collaboratively with patients and other endometriosis experts to try to improve diagnosis and treatments for endometriosis associated pain and infertility.

Summary of Publications

Mr Hirsch has published expansively in peer reviewed journals in the area of endometriosis including the development of recent core outcome set. His research portfolio includes 41 published items in the field of endometriosis, attracting over 600 citations from other researchers. Mr Hirsch presents this work regularly at national and international conferences with national recognition awards from NHS improvement, The British Society of Gynaecological Endoscopy, and Health Education England.

Teaching & Training

Mr Hirsch has coordinated and supervised an extensive amount of educational courses for universities. These include the coordination of: Simulated laparoscopy courses, providing laparoscopic sessions to junior trainees at the University College London Hospital, and a simulated laparoscopic library course at the Barts Health NHS Trust and The Royal London Hospital. Mr Hirsch has also held courses on basic surgical skills, abnormal uterine bleeding, novel developments in endometriosis, reproductive health, and women’s health revision. He has supervised undergraduate medical students conducting their intercalated BSc since 2015, previously in global health at the Barts Health NHS Trust and The London School of Medicine & Dentistry, and reproductive health at the University College London Hospital.

Prizes and Awards

2015: Trainee Doctor of the Year (Higher Education England North East Central London)

2016: Competitive selection and appointment as UCLPartners Quality Fellow

2016: Higher Trainee Doctor of the Year (UCLPartners)

2016: NHS Innovations Challenge Prize winner

2019: Best Trainee Video Award (British Society for Gynaecological Endoscopy)

Memberships of Professional Bodies & Learned Societies

Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG)

British Society of Gynaecological Endoscopy (BSGE)

European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE)

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